There are conflicting reports as to whether the shape of the psychometric relation between perceived roughness and tactile element spacing [spatial period (SP)] follows an inverted U-shape or a monotonic linear increase. This is a critical issue because the former result has been used to assess neuronal codes for roughness. We tested the hypothesis that the relation's shape is critically depend...

Large-scale, deterministic assembly of nanowires and nanotubes with rationally controlled geometries could expand the potential applications of one-dimensional nanomaterials in bottom-up integrated nanodevice arrays and circuits. Control of the positions of straight nanowires and nanotubes has been achieved using several assembly methods, although simultaneous control of position and geometry h...

Studies investigating cross-modal correspondences between auditory pitch and visual shapes have shown children and adults consistently match high pitch to pointy shapes and low pitch to curvy shapes, yet no studies have investigated linguistic-uses of pitch. In the present study, we used a bouba/kiki style task to investigate the sound/shape mappings for Tones of Mandarin Chinese, for three gro...

SUMMARY Various s t u d i e s are p r e s e n t l y b e i n g made on t h e f a c i a l image (e. g. , h i g h l y e f f i-c i e n t coding and t h e d i s c r i m i n a t i o n of f a c e s) f o r computer a n i m a t i o n and TV conference systems. T h i s p a p e r d e s c r i b e s a method i n which t h e three-dimensional (3-D) shape of t h e f a c e i s e s t i m a t e d from a s i n g ...

Recently, wormhole routers with multi-destination capability have been proposed to support fast multicast in a multi-computer network. To avoid communication deadlock, existing results have proposed to construct a Hamilton path, Euler path, trip, or their variants, in the network, perhaps with some degree of support of virtual channels 1, 14, 15, 18, 23]. In this paper, we identify that a netwo...

This study examines the impact of public spending on human development in Asian countries, considering both investment and current spending. The empirical method is a system-GMM, using dataset 35 countries collected from 2005 to 2014 by Development Bank (ADB) United Nations Programme (UNDP). findings indicated that government spending, had effects index, but these are not linear. Depending type...

Abstract This paper uses the panel data of 275 prefecture-level cities in China 2003–2019 and spatial Durbin model to verify impact environmental regulation industrial agglomeration on air pollution. finds that enforcement intensity regulations (ER) is not consistent among cities. The effects strict ER pollution local city are inverted-U-shape curve. more stringent adjacent j i U-shape may lead...

Cerebrovascular diseases are one of the serious causes for increase in mortality rate world which affect blood vessels and supply to brain. In order, diagnose study abnormalities cerebrovascular system, accurate segmentation methods can be used. The shape, direction distribution studied using automatic segmentation. This will help doctors envisage system. Due complex shape topology, is still a ...

This paper presents an experimental study of structural behavior self compacting reinforced concrete beams strengthened in shear by vertical CFRP strips. The work consists casting and testing eleven simply supported beams. One the tested beam was un-strengthened to be considered as beams, while remaining were after being using In this study, three parameters considered, configuration sheets wra...